Di Liu
MA work
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A woodblock illustration of a Ming chair from Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅, China and a Ming chair collected by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16th century
A woodblock illustration of a Ming chair from Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅, China and a Ming chair collected by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16th century
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Illustration of the Dutch residency at Deshima, Japan, featuring Ming-style chairs. Illustrated by Shiba Kokan 司馬江漢 in Saiyu ryodan 西游旅譚, National Diet Library, Japan 1790
Illustration of the Dutch residency at Deshima, Japan, featuring Ming-style chairs. Illustrated by Shiba Kokan 司馬江漢 in Saiyu ryodan 西游旅譚, National Diet Library, Japan 1790
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‘Wegner: Just One Good Chair’ Exhibition, featuring Hans Wegner's China Chairs and Ming Chairs, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen 2014
Photographer: Pernille Klemp‘Wegner: Just One Good Chair’ Exhibition, featuring Hans Wegner's China Chairs and Ming Chairs, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen 2014
Photographer: Pernille Klemp
Ming Chairs: Origin, Past and Present
This dissertation looks at Ming chairs. It explores the origins of chairs in China, how chairs reached the peak in the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) in terms of materials and design, and the transmission of Ming chairs to other countries such as Japan and Britain in the early modern period. It also traces how Ming chairs came to be known to the wider world since the twentieth century through a network of collectors, art dealers, auction houses and museum curators, and how Ming chairs have been interpreted by modern and contemporary designers.
Ming chairs, although primarily associated with a Chinese identity, have become a transnational object. Ming chairs have evolved in history, transcended national boundaries, and embraced multiple identities.
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA History of Design, 2016
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Contact
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Di Liu is an art and design researcher and writer based in London and Hong Kong.
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Degrees
- LLB Law, University College London, 2014; BA Sociology, Peking University, China, 2011
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Experience
- Soapbox speaker, Victoria and Albert Museum Europe Galleries 1600–1815, V&A Friday Late, 2016; Guest lecturer, 'Hi Contemporary Art!' Lecture Series, Shenzhen Art Museum, China, 2015; Film editing volunteer for 'Unidentified Acts of Design', the Victoria & Albert Museum Pavilion project at Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen, China, 2015; Project co-leader, 'Museum of Materiality', AcrossRCA, Royal College of Art, London, 2015; Research volunteer, ‘Collection of Collections’, the British Pavilion project at Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015; Chinese Art Department placement, Christie’s, London, 2015; Research assistant, Art Auction Laws Reform Project, ArtAsia, London, 2015; Exhibition researcher, ‘Chinese Medicine and Health Practices in the UK’, British Chinese Workforce Heritage, an oral history project at Ming-Ai Institute in London, 2014
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Exhibitions
- 'Museum of Materiality', AcrossRCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2015; 'The Unfolded', AcrossRCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2014; ‘Chinese Medicine and Health Practices in the UK’, Charing Cross Library, London, UK, 2014; Summer Foundation Exhibition, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 2013
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Awards
- French Ministry of Culture and Communication ACCR Odyssée Programme Residency, 2016; Victorian and Albert Museum Anthony Gardner Travel Fund, 2015; Design History Society Student Travel Bursary, 2015; Lee Wai Wing Scholarship, 2011; Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows Scholarship, 2010; Li & Fung Scholarship, 2008; Gereg Scholarship, 2008
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Publications
- 'Exhibition Review: The Materialisation of An Ephemeral Experience', Unmaking Things (online), 2015